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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An actor dressed as an army officer, holding a saber, for the performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears ... |
| Date: | 06 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Richard and Ione Edwards behind the bar at the Belmont Spa, in the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street, with a clock advertising Calvert liquor. |
| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 09 09 1941 |
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| Description: | Set-up of radio equipment for a lecture. The man is probably Glenn Morris. |
| Date: | 11 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Lewis sitting in a chair and Richard "Dickie" Lewis, a 3-year-old, standing beside the chair with floor model radio in th... |
| Date: | 08 03 1937 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of girl singer in floor length polka dot dress standing in front of a microphone. Taken for Anson Weeks orchestra. |
| Date: | 10 05 1936 |
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| Description: | Woman, winner of radio contest, standing next to a Grunow floor model radio. Banner reads: "Grunow Teledial, the self-tuning radio" at the University Radio... |
| Date: | 06 25 1936 |
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| Description: | Man dressed as a cowboy playing a guitar and singing in front of WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 01 28 1936 |
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| Description: | A man dressed as a cowboy is sitting and holding a guitar in front of a microphone in W.I.B.A. studios, 111 King Street, Room 28. |
| Date: | 09 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Ruth L. Brissee holding a rifle, standing with her dog in a garden at 2437 Fox Avenue. At age 15 she is the youngest huntress in Dane County. |
| Date: | 09 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Helen Schleck (Mrs. Mathias H.), standing beside a radio, is a Dane County pioneer celebrating her 86th birthday, 1201 Sherman Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 21 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Police Officer Earl V. Bonner, the shortest man on the Madison police force, who joined in 1928, and Romain W. York Jr., the tallest man on the... |
| Date: | 08 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Prof. C. Morse Huffer is standing with the 20 foot telescope in the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 03 13 1931 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Lampert, assistant city attorney, sitting at her desk with telephone and typewriter. |
| Date: | 12 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street. |
| Date: | 12 09 1930 |
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| Description: | Two pianists are sitting at pianos at WIBA. |
| Date: | 11 04 1930 |
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| Description: | Robert La Follette standing next to a radio on election night at the La Follette home. |
| Date: | 10 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Walter T. Butler stands beside a radio transmitter in his store, Butler Radio Service, 606 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Everett Marshall, engineer, standing at the control panel of the radio station, WIBA. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Jean Hoffman looks over a printed circuit board in the foreground, with a map of Madison, Wisconsin on the wall behind her. |
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